Loss of site: organizational site moves as organizational deaths
International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy
ISSN: 0144-333X
Article publication date: 1 June 2003
Abstract
This paper broadens and extends the idea of organizational death by arguing that certain organizational site moves, those in which employees hold a strong place attachment to the to be left, are a form of organizational death. It argues for the utility of viewing organizational change as involving loss and including space in studies of everyday organizational experiences. Using ethnographic research (participant‐observation and in‐depth interviews with the employees) of one such organization (the “Coffee House”) and a negotiated‐order perspective, discusses employee beliefs as to how the site move should have been managed as a means to document their understanding of the move as a loss experience and as a form of organizational death.
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Citation
Milligan, M.J. (2003), "Loss of site: organizational site moves as organizational deaths", International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 23 No. 6/7, pp. 115-152. https://doi.org/10.1108/01443330310790615
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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